AISI's solution integrates publishing software from Advanced Publishing Technology Inc. of Burbank, Calif., into a standards-based network architecture. The AISI/APT contract replaces a Crosfield/Hastech system.

The AISI/APT project includes a turnkey publishing package, single point-of-contact support, electronic pagination on a single PC platform and nonstop systems support.

During January, AISI also posted sales to customers of System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Calif., at the ALBANY (N.Y.) TIMES-UNION (103k morning), SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (544k morning), SACRAMENTO (Calif.) BEE (270k morning), ROCHESTER (N.Y.) DEMOCRAT-CHRONICLE (137k morning) and TIMES-UNION (66k evening) and FRESNO (Calif.) BEE (149k morning).

Vin Alabiso, AP vice president and executive photo editor, said AP photographers will carry two electronic cameras -- the News Camera 2000 and the News Camera 2000e -- in covering the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the U.S. presidential campaign and election. In addition, AP photographers at every major U.S. bureau will have a digital camera available for daily assignments, he said. The cameras also will be used overseas.

On Jan. 28, Super Bowl Sunday, AP's photo service moved to newspapers more than 130 digital images of the Super Bowl taken by 20 staff photographers equipped with 40 digital cameras.

Instead of using film, pictures taken with the News Camera 2000 and 2000e are stored on small, removable disks the size of a credit card. The disks are removed from the camera and placed in a reader for downloading.

AP's Research and Development team has developed a high-volume disk reading system called Audrey, in which hundreds of images are downloaded off disks and saved onto a hard drive. The digital images are then reviewed, edited and captioned by an AP photo editor and sent electronically to AP's satellite uplink for transmission to AP subscribers around the world.

The AP NC 2000 and AP NC 2000e, a recently announced version of the camera, are the result of a collaboration between AP and Kodak, who have been refining electronic cameras for photojournalism for four years. Improved electronics in the NC 2000e provide significantly enhanced image quality and color fidelity. This new technology reduces digital noise and eliminates the grainy texture common in digital images higher than 800 ISO.

The NC 2000e has increased memory -- 16 megabytes -- which enables photographers to shoot more consecutive frames before the images are saved to the drive (2.25 frames per second for a burst of 12 images). An advanced Photoshop plug-in designed by AP also lets photographers capture more data for better quality photos. The plug-in allows users to work with 36-bit data before saving it in standard 24-bit RGB mode.

Adaptive Solutions of Beaverton, Ore., has worked with AP to improve the processing power in AP's computers for faster editing of digital images. AP used Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop accelerator boards at Super Bowl XXX.

-- Housatonic Valley Publishing Co. of New Milford, Conn.: editorial system interface between a XyWrite-based CText system and Quark XPress for pagination of seven weekly publications.

-- Newtown (Conn.) Bee Publishing Co., publishers of the weekly NEWTOWN BEE: system integration project, including an interface between a CText AFM editorial system and the newspaper's on-line publication, with conversion of headline, byline and body styles into HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

-- BELLEVILLE (Ill.) NEWS-DEMOCRAT (50k morning): completion of a user-education program for newspaper editorial, advertising, production and information services staff including training classes on Adobe Photoshop, Quark XPress, Multi-Ad Creator and Baseview NewsEdit Pro software.

-- Fort Wayne (Ind.) Newspapers Inc., publishers of the JOURNAL-GAZETTE (62k morning) and NEWS-SENTINEL (54k evening): classified pagination interface between a TECS/2 advertising system from Publishing Partners International of Manchester, N.H., and Page Director CLS from Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., including all liner ads, boxed ads, and semi-display ads with logos.

-- PC's COMPLEAT of Marlborough, Mass.: installation of a Macintosh-based pagination system for catalog publishing, consisting of nine PowerMac page makeup workstations, PostScrõpt output devices and an image archive subsystem.

-- TRIBUNE-REVIEW of Greensburg, Pa. (62k morning): remote pagination system, including ISDN transmission of complete pages from the newspaper's editorial office in Pittsburgh to its main production site in Greensburg, and a SoftWindows interface for the CText editorial system to import formatted text files into Quark XPress.

DT's 4.2 maintenance upgrade of ClassSpeed with the Classified Database includes these new features:

-- Umbrella accounts, which provide users with the ability to create a master account number with unlimited sub-accounts under each master. Special graphics or logos can be linked to the individual sub-account, as well as to the master account, assisting in specialized marketing.

-- User-definable fields, which may be used to track special information about the newspaper's customers for such things as database marketing purposes.

-- WYSIWYG directories for ads, permitting users to see the WYSIWYG image of any ad while scanning through directories, helping in quickly locating the correct ad.

Javelin manages copy flow for most Macintosh DTP programs and provides client/server database storage within an industry-standard Sybase SQL database. Javelin manages text, graphics, pages and ads in both native and EPS formats. Javelin can be used as an ad management system, pagination system or digital library/archive system. The data migration between on-line magnetic and near-line optical is completely automated.

AdCompress is Adobe Photoshop plug-in compressor software, allowing users to save scanned images in compressed files with an OPI-compatible view image that can be placed on page layouts for pagination. After OPI substitution, high-resolution files may be automatically decompressed by a Level 2 PostScript RIP. Users have reported AdCompress compression ratios for 1-bit scans averaging 10:1, while compression ratios for ads with more white space range from 20:1 to 30:1.

DT's new Pagination Database provides multiple operators the ability to work on a page simultaneously. Revisions are automatically updated on each user's Macintosh screen. All page production information is stored in the Pagination Database, including page plans, story templates and styles. Stories, with graphics where applicable, are automatically composed into pre-defined shapes according to the styles stored in the Pagination Database.

-- BAKERSFIELD (Calif.) CALIFORNIAN (75k morning): OPI software.

-- NEW HAVEN (Conn.) REGISTER (100k morning): Sun RipExpress, three Sun SPARC 5/110 workstations and an ExpressMaster 6OOO broadsheet drum recorder with punch.

-- DAYTONA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-JOURNAL (99k morning): An additional ExpressMaster 25 drum recorder to compliment an existing ExpressMaster 25 being driven by a Sun RipExpress.

-- CONNERSVILLE (Ind.) NEWS-EXAMINER (9k evening): PowerMac RipExpress and ImageMaster 1000 laser imager.

-- THE TIMES, Frankfort, Ind. (7k evening): PowerMac RipExpress and ExpressMaster 1270 laser recorder.

-- NEW CASTLE (Ind.) COURIER-TIMES (12k evening): PowerMac RipExpress and ExpressMaster 1270 laser recorder.

-- HAMMOND (La.) DAILY STAR (11k evening): PowerMac RipExpress and ExpressMaster 1270 laser recorder.

-- THE CAPITAL, Annapolis, Md. (45k morning): Sun RipExpress.

-- Dow Jones & Co., Chicopee, Mass.: Sun RipExpress driving the broadsheet imagesetter ProofExpress.

-- ST. PAUL (Minn.) PIONEER PRESS (215k morning): ImageMaster 8000 double-truck drum recorder with punch.

-- BATTLE CREEK (Mich.) ENQUIRER (28k evening): Two PowerMac RipExpresses driving an ExpressMaster 4550 imagesetter.

-- NEW YORK TIMES (1.1m morning): An additional PC RipExpress and Pentium 100 workstation.

-- DAYTON (Ohio) DAILY NEWS (172k morning): Two Sun RipExpresses, two Sun SPARC 5/110 workstations, two ExpressMaster 6000 drum recorders with on-line processors. The RipExpress also will drive two Autologic APS 108 imagers via the Monologic Interface.

-- SHAWNEE (Okla.) NEWS-STAR (11k morning): ExpressMaster l270 laser recorder.

--THE PROGRESS, Clearfield, Pa. (15k evening): PC RipExpress, Pentium 100 Workstation and Ultre 4000 capstan recorder.

-- MILWAUKEE (Wis.) JOURNAL SENTINEL (288k morning): Four RIP-to-TIFF system options for existing Sun RipExpress.

-- NORWICH (Conn.) BULLETIN (34k morning).

-- BEDFORD (Ind.) TIMES-MAIL (14k evening).

-- SHELBYVILLE (Ind.) NEWS (11k evening).

-- MASON CITY (Iowa) GLOBE-GAZETTE (20k morning).

-- MUSCATINE (Iowa) JOURNAL (10k evening).

-- THE COURIER, Houma, La. (20k evening).

-- SALISBURY (Md.) DAILY TIMES (29k morning).

-- SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE, Fitchburg, Mass. (21k evening).

-- LANCASTER (Ohio) EAGLE-GAZETTE (17k evening).

-- MARYSVILLE (Ohio) JOURNAL-TRIBUNE (5k evening).

-- MIDDLETOWN (Ohio) JOURNAL (22k evening).

-- TROY (Ohio) DAILY NEWS (11k evening).

-- ABILENE (Texas) REPORTER-NEWS (43k morning).

-- PLANO (Texas) STAR COURIER (13k morning).

-- BECKLEY (W.Va.) REGISTER-HERALD (31k morning).

-- Charleston Newspapers, Charleston, W.Va. (CHARLESTON GAZETTE, 53k morning; CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL, 47k evening).

-- DAILY TRIBUNE, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. (14k evening).

CANADA

-- DAILY NEWS, Truro, Nova Scotia (9k evening).

Merlin WebMaster uses a forms-based web interface to submit common search queries to a web server that searches the T/ONE Merlin database and returns thumbnails and captions that match the search criteria. The thumbnails are linked to larger preview images for closer viewing.

Users point their browsers to a Merlin Archive website, fill out a form, click on the submit button and await their search results -- there is no complicated search syntax or special software required.

Merlin WebMaster is an add-on product to the Merlin Archive, which can function as part of an internal network (LAN or WAN) or be connected to the Internet:

The Merlin WebMaster will be demonstrated at the National Press Photographers Association's Digital '96 conference Feb. 21-24 in Denver. It will be offered for sale as an add-on to the Merlin Archive beginning in March.

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